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CJJ Berry's recipe says to dissolve the sugar in some of the hot water, leave to cool and then pour over the rice, so no need to boil the rice Meryl.

Anyone considering beetroot wine, Aldi is doing 500g packs of cooked beetroot for 29p! And btw, I found out you can freeze them and they are ok when thawed. I'm pretty sure I saw in CJJ Berry's 'First steps in winemaking' somewhere that he said the best thing for tomatoes was tomato juice, I...

You should be fine, I brew 25lt lots most of the time, the only thing I have found is that although 'KwikClear' and 'Clearit' are great at clearing single gallons that you have racked off most of the sediment, they can take about a week with a 25lt that hasn't been racked off. So I now use...

If this is not too late, if all of the sugar was fermented out it would give an alcohol content in the area of 22-23%, which is too high for most yeasts, as far as I understand it the 'Turbo Yeasts' produce just alcohol and destroy any fruit flavour in it. (I'm sure some you guys will put me...

Hi Redron, Rhubarb tends to make a rather nondescript wine, CJJ Berry suggests it is good for blending to add strength to those wines that have plenty of flavour but a tad low on the falling down content. As you said the recipe included some grape juice, Terry's suggestion of adding grape...

Maybe contact one of the local cider making clubs or societies, I understand they often get together to do fairly large batches. Don't know if this is any help: http://www.cideruk.com/

I was in Farm Foods yesterday and picked up Tate & Lyle at 39p a kilo! Unbelievable price, must be a world glut. They had a pallet load and no restrictions on the amount you can buy, I bought 20 ... £7.80 you would have been pushed to buy 6 for that a couple of years ago. I think it's national.

Sainsbury have RGJ at the mo its 2 for £1 50, 75p a litre. It makes a good deep coloured red with dark fruit juices like blueberry or a nice rosy red with light juices like apple. You can get the best book on winemaking 'First steps in winemaking' by CJJ Berry considered by many to be 'The...

My thoughts are that secondary fermentation happens when you have allowed your wine/cider to clear and add sugar to the bottles when bottling. Can I suggest that you refer to the 'Bible' 'First steps in Wine Making' by CJJ Berry, he refers to a book on sparkling wines called 'How to make...

Thanks Tony, I wasn't sure how long to leave the sultanas in there as the last time I used them was probably twenty years ago! The memory is not what it was!

Oops! I'd totally forgotten that post!!! Thanks Chippy .... senior moment ... a VERY senior moment!

If I use 250g minced sultanas in place of 1L of WGJ, do I leave them in the DJ until the end of fermentation or strain them out part way through which would mean leaving some of the sugar in the fruit not in the wine so calculations on the amount of sugar to add would be out. I know I've...

Hi Floinksy, Try the 'Make Your Own' red wine kit from The Range, it might be their own label but it really is a good one and for £25 it's still under £1 a bottle. Made loads of them always been good.

In Sainsburys Hedge End they had several juices on special at 50p a carton this week end, I picked up blood orange, exotic juice and some pomegranate, don't know if it's national.

In Sainsburys Hedge End they had several juices on special at 50p a carton this week end, I picked up blood orange, exotic juice and some pomegranate, don't know if it's national.

Evil Freddie has beaten you to it I'm afraid. http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23396&highlight=golden+syrup

Sainsburys are doing their RGJ (from concentrate) 2 for £1.50, they sent me some vouchers, £4 off when you spend £20, so 28 cartons = £21 minus the £4 voucher = £17, just over 60p each! The best bit, I have a voucher for each of the next 3 weeks as well! This RGJ is very red it makes a...

A blender should work fine, if you think about it the fruit will still be 'sediment' whether you chop it fairly coarse or blend it into a soup, the only difference is when you take it out, assuming you would strain the chopped fruit out after the initial fermentation but leave the soup in to...

Using Tony's figures, and reading up on some of CJJ Berry's recipes, we can work out that if 250g sultanas = 1L WGJ and 250g sultanas = 140ml grape concentrate, that = 1L WGJ So 1L concentrate will be just over 7L WGJ and 5L will be just under 36L WGJ. Unfortunately some retailers give their...

If the dilution is only adding water, would I be right in assuming that if we know the sugar content/litre of the concentrate and the juice we should be able to work out the dilution needed. Something like: Sugar/L concentrate divided by sugar/L juice So if your concentrate was 600g/L...